S 8918 — Establishes the build up New York pilot program and the mass timber for affordable housing program to encourage the use of mass timber in affordable housing retrofits and additions

Congress · introduced 2026-01-15

Establishes the build up New York pilot program to provide grants to eligible municipalities that construct new accessory dwelling unit housing projects built on top of existing buildings that utilize mass timber and serve certain households; establishes the mass timber for affordable housing program to provide tax credits for eligible taxpayers who use mass timber in certain new construction or major retrofits of existing buildings that primarily serve households up to one hundred fifty percent of the area median income; establishes tax credits for mass timber production.

Latest action: 2026-04-16 — IN_SENATE_COMM

Action timeline

2026-01-15 · senate — REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
2026-04-16 · senate — AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
2026-04-16 · senate — PRINT NUMBER 8918A

Text versions

Introduced · 2026-01-15 — HTML · Text
Amendment A · 2026-04-16 — HTML · Text

Connected on the graph

Inbound (1)

date	from	type	amount	role	source
2026-01-15	Brian Kavanagh	sponsor_of_bill	—	sponsor	sponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#	Member	Role	Speeches	Voted	Score
1	Brian Kavanagh (—, state_upper NY-27)	sponsor	0	—	5

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

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2026-01-15 · sponsored by Brian Kavanagh (sponsor) · sponsorship

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